For the past four years, photographer and biochemist Linden Gledhill has been taking macro focus shots of various butterfly and moth wings. Gledhill, who has also photographed natural and homegrown snowflakes, designed his own rig (with the help of Cognisys) to help create these intricate and beautiful close-up perspectives.

Cognisys, the makers of StopShot have developed a fully automated macro focusing rail. This machine is incredibly well made and accurate down to 0.01mm. The controller automates the laborious process of capturing the images needed to build a high resolution macro stack by controlling not only the macro rail but also the camera.

Most photos were taken at 7X life size using flash. Image: Sunset moth.